stroke volume in a sentence
Examples
- The strength of heart muscle contractions controls the stroke volume.
- Blood volume increases act to increase stroke volume of the heart via Starling's law.
- This increases the contractile force of the cardiac muscle, resulting in increased stroke volume.
- The area under the flow-versus-time curve for one cardiac cycle is the stroke volume.
- Conversely during expiration, the heart is compressed, decreasing cardiac efficiency and increasing stroke volume.
- Cardiac output ( CO ) is the product of stroke volume and heart rate.
- This type of exercise also increases both heart rate and stroke volume of the heart.
- This is affected by stroke volume and heart rate.
- Sodium thiopental decreases the cardiac stroke volume, which results in a decrease in cardiac output.
- The stroke volume is affected by changes in preload, afterload, and inotropy ( contractility ).